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The other Democratic candidate who receives little attention — and when he does, it’s frivolously negative — is U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio. Perfectly representing the liberal ideology other candidates only pay lip service to, he has stood up for what he and much of the country believes in. He has been a member of the House of Representatives for 10 years and has avidly advanced the liberal agenda, pushing for federally subsidized health care, same-sex marriage, preventing privatized social security and getting our troops out of Iraq. He has been the leading lawmaker in pushing for executive impeachments of the Bush administration, formally calling for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney in April. While these should serve as rallying points for a popular run at becoming the Democratic candidate for president, he is laughed at. Attention seems to be focused more on his stature — he’s 5 feet, 7 inches — than his record. Or you have what happened at the last Democratic debate, where he is remembered not for his continued reminders that he was right on the Iraq issue, but how he answered the last question given to him. Mr. Kucinich was asked, of all things, if it was true that he had once seen an unidentified flying object.

CNN, the sponsor of the debate, should be ashamed for asking that question. They ended that debate by reminding the American people that this man’s name was not Clinton, Obama or Edwards. Instead of allowing Mr. Kucinich’s policies to echo through the electorate, his UFO sighting is remembered; it becomes him.